Benefits and disadvantages of nuclear power

Benefits of nuclear power:

1, nuclear power does not cause air pollution unlike fossil fuel power generation which emits huge amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere.

2. Nuclear power does not produce carbon dioxide, which aggravates the earth's greenhouse effect.

3. Uranium fuel used in nuclear power has no use other than generating electricity.

4. The fuel used in nuclear power plants is small and easy to transport and store.

5. Fuel costs account for a low percentage of the cost of nuclear power, and the cost of generating electricity is more stable than other methods of generating electricity.

Bad things about nuclear power:

1. Nuclear waste: Up to now, no country has been able to find a way to dispose of highly radioactive nuclear waste safely and permanently. However, the inability to deal with nuclear waste only means that it can not be eliminated within a short period of time, and its own safety in the storage process is still guaranteed.2, thermal pollution: due to the existing steam turbines used to generate electricity in the conventional island of lower thermal efficiency, and thus it will be more than the general fossil fuel power plants will be discharged more waste heat to the surrounding environment, so the nuclear power plant of the thermal pollution is more serious.

Extended information:

Nuclear power: All matter in the world is made up of atoms, which in turn are made up of a nucleus and the electrons surrounding it. The fusion of hydrogen nuclei and the splitting of heavy nuclei can release energy, respectively, called fusion energy and fission energy, referred to as nuclear energy or nuclear power. Development of nuclear power technology: ? Since December 1951, the United States Experimental Breeder Reactor 1 (EBR-1) for the first time since the use of nuclear energy to generate electricity, the world's nuclear power so far has more than 60 years of development history.

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